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Honoring USS Liberty’s Dr. Kiepfer and USS Liberty Vets

Posted on February 25, 2015March 31, 2017 By Eileen Fleming No Comments on Honoring USS Liberty’s Dr. Kiepfer and USS Liberty Vets
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By Eileen Fleming

 

[Kerrville, Texas] USS Liberty’s lone physician, Dr. Richard Kiepfer, entered eternity last Friday from his home adorned with icons of St. Francis of Assisi. st-francis-of-assisi-2

Kiepfer was the Chief Medical Officer and only physician on the USS Liberty during Israel’s brutal attack on America’s premier spy ship as it navigated in international waters on June 8, 1967.

Dr. Kiepfer’s Silver Star Medal Commendation affirmed that with complete disregard for his own personal safety, he “exposed himself to overwhelmingly accurate rocket and machine gun fire…administered first aid…treated [171 wounded] men for pain, shock…[and] conducted a major surgical operation.”

Dr. Kiepfer performed emergency surgical operations for over thirty hours on his shipmates, although severely wounded himself.

Read Dr. Kiepfer’s official obituary and sign the guestbook HERE

 

This reporter spent a weekend with Doc in December 2007, a few days after he was discharged from a six month stay in a rehab center recuperating from a below the knee amputation.

USSLIBERTYflowers  I learned of Dr. Kiepfer’s death just a few hours after receiving this potted Canna Lilly from the USS LIBERTY Vets because of my baby brother’s suicide on February 11.

Over the last few days I have learned that James A. Kasmir had been among the 1% of the total population with debilitating OCD, which in his case proved fatal because he had NOT shared with his family that he had been diagnosed with mental illness and he had descended into a clinical depression shortly after last Thanksgiving season.

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RX: ZX Money and Suicide #JimKaz #BigPharma

 

Dr. Kiepfer became a Master Bridge player while still in his teens and he always played the cards he was dealt with aplomb and grace.

In 1973, Doc nearly died in a plane crash after parachuting above a forest of Georgia pecan trees which ended his surgical career and use of his right hand and arm.

Doc said,

Dr.Kiepfer “As I laid there and looked at my arm and failed every test to move it, I knew then I would never operate again and began to think about what I could do in life to continue to be useful, and decided on nuclear medicine. The pilot landed a mile away from me, and was impaled…”

 

   Read more HERE

 

 

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In 2012, Eileen ran for US House of Representatives District 5, in Fl.
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